"a name rejected for linguistic reasons, bad nomenclature in botany or biology," 1888, from caco- "bad, ill, poor" + -onym "name" (from PIE root *no-men- "name").
cachinnation
cack
cackle
caco-
cacoethes
caconym
cacoon
cacophony
cactus
cad
cadastral
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